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J. S. Mill addressed for the first time the legitimacy of interventions in foreign wars in his The Spanish Question. I begin by explaining the historical context of that text and its thesis about the First Carlist War. The main section of the article is devoted to the principles on war interventionism stated in The Spanish Question and to show that Mill endorsed those principles with rather few modifications henceforth. As a concluding remark I hold that the Concert of Europe established by 1815 Congress of Vienna is the adequate background to appreciate Mill's ideas as a realist project of moralizing the international balance of power. Adapted from the source document.